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The Strength Running Podcast

Episode 50: Running 101: How I think about training runners to race faster

The Strength Running Podcast

Jason Fitzgerald

Health & Fitness, 10k, Beginnerrunning, Marathontraining, Fitness, Injuryprevention, Marathon, Halfmarathon, Running, Sports

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Two years ago, I was interviewed for an event called The Running Summit. I spoke about wide-ranging topics:

  • How I started running
  • My injury prevention philosophy
  • The biggest areas of improvement for runners
  • Strength training do's and don'ts
  • Warm-ups and cross-training
  • My favorite aspects of coaching
  • How running "scales"
  • My favorite running authors
  • The two principles of sound form you must remember
  • Who benefits from getting a coach?
  • How to build your mileage more safely than the 10% rule
  • Why 'Run Less, Run Faster' fails as a training methodology
  • and a lot more!

As you can see, we went DEEP on running and touched on nearly every important element of sound training.

This is an audio recording of our interview where you'll be able to glean insights from my experience as a runner, coach, and a coached athlete.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ready, set go.

0:04.7

This is episode 50 featuring my interview with Trey and Brandon to the strength running podcast I hope you're having a good week and that you're running is

0:27.8

rockin and rolling right now today's podcast is actually different than any other episode we've produced so far.

0:35.0

That's because I'm not interviewing anybody. In fact, I'm the one being interviewed.

0:40.0

About two years ago, I was a guest for the Running Summit which was an event put on by the team over at Connect Run Club

0:46.9

and I want to share the audio with you because I think it's valuable for a lot of reasons.

0:52.7

First, it's really broad.

0:54.7

We talk about everything from how I get into running,

0:57.8

my injury prevention philosophy,

1:00.1

the biggest areas to focus on, if want to improve how running scales the perfect types of runners for online coaching

1:08.1

and the most important aspects of running form to keep in mind. So there's a lot that we cover in this interview and we also do some

1:16.6

Q&A at the end that runners submitted in real time. So you know I'm answering questions about the 10% rule on building mileage, the

1:27.0

run less, run faster training approach, whether you can split a long run into two runs on the same day,

1:32.7

and a bunch more questions.

1:34.3

So I think you should look at this episode

1:37.1

as kind of your big go-to episode

1:40.0

on how I think about running. And I'm sharing it so you can hopefully glean some

1:45.1

insights into more strategic planning for your training because better planning

1:50.8

always leads to faster racing. So I also want to thank Inside

1:54.6

Tracker for sponsoring today's show. They let you take a selfie from the

1:58.4

inside, which hold on I know that sounds kind of creepy, but I promise you, it's legit.

2:05.2

What they do is test over 40 health markers, everything from stress hormones to iron

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